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If you goal is to have the bone cause the green cube to move…. be sure to keep “Deform” selected. When you turn this off…the bone no longer has any influence over the object or vertex group.
You and kdv are right in this regard. Why the mesh initially seemed to distort when I rotated it was because I did not put a constraint on it.
Removing parent:
Renaming Vertex group:
Reparenting mesh to bone Armature Deform – with empty group:
Rotating without constraints:
Obviously, I need to put a rotation constraint to prevent mesh rotating in unwanted angle. But why in this case, what do I set min and max for limit x, to prevent rotating mesh from going off angle?
What tutorial did you watch to do the way you did?
https://i.ibb.co/JCpzrrb/o46x1.png
https://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/240289/assigning-mesh-to-bones
No need to add vertex groups manually. They will be created automatically after parenting a mesh to an armature (with the correct names).
I see, I’ll try this out and let you know ASAP
I see, I was gonna produce a web/browser game where the playable character can do multiple actions but I guess I gotta create separate blend files for each of its various actions then.
This is one reason why I asked if hiding objects would improve overall user performance, esp for memory and fps
While I worked around this 2 ways:– by extending out bones from the eye’s to the mouth’s, selected mesh and then shift+armature
parented mesh to the armature by ctrl+p, and choosing “Armature Deform -with Empty
Groups”, and then deleted the unneeded bones– after adding a bone, I selected it and went into edit mode to duplicate it, then went back to
object mode to select mesh, then shift+armature, parented mesh to armature the armature by
ctrl+p, and choosing “Armature Deform -with Empty Groups”any other way to add separate bones as one armature?most mecha rigging were based on separate mesh parts, not a mecha as a single mesh
It doesn’t matter. When (and if) you understand how to bind vertex groups to bones you will be able to do it with any mesh.
I’ll try this, but using “with empty groups” under “Armature deform” instead of “automatic weights” as per this screenshot
Or maybe I’ll try this instead
The more vertices, the more video memory consumption. One mesh – one geometry buffer. One mesh, visible on the screen – one render/draw call (provided post-processing is not used). Meshes that are out of the camera’s field of view are not rendered.
Thanks kdv, that was an informative answer.
Any light source casting shadows will double the amount of render calls. Most of post-processing passes will also double the amount of render calls.
What do you mean, post-processing passes?
